After the SC ruling that cleared the way for Rajuk to demolish the unlawful structure beyond the sixth floor, the Rangs Group appealed to the government to allow 15 days for shifting its machinery and other goods. This building was constructed at a cost of about Tk 700 crore, there is machinery worth Tk 300 crore, it housed 30 companies. So how could this 22 - story building be vacated within hours? Television pictures showed people carrying goods on shoulders like the way hawkers vacate the footpath when police chase them.

Many things & materials of this huge structure can be reused & recycled if properly dismantled. This costly building could be demolished at the end stage of the proposed road construction that probably will take a few years. In the mean time the government could allow the Rangs Group or any third party to use it on rental basis.

However, the CTG deserves thanks for this job, like many others, which the former political governments failed to accomplish. But the comment "We do not do anything out of anger" of the PW adviser is not really understandable!

Although I agree that Rangs Bhaban has broken the law, I don't agree with the way the demolition was handled. The Supreme Court verdict was given one day and it was broken up the next, it seems the government is a little "hammer happy" at the moment, the haste with which they want to use their hammers seems to defy logic. What harm would there have been in letting the occupiers vacate the premises with their equipment? In the rush to maximise publicity the authorities were set on demolition with the vengeance and spitefulness of a small child, this is not appropriate for a governing authority. How does it benefit the people if Grameenphone (one of the occupiers) give us a disrupted service because they would not allow them enough time to move their equipment?

Although most would agree with the decision that the building had to go, they would also disagree with the brutish manner in which it was handled. If the joint forces want to win our support, they will have to behave with a little more professionalism than this.

I, among others, started to feel sorry for the Rangs Bhaban and its people.
Safina, Dhaka

After much waiting and anguish, the tearing down of the Rangs Bhaban comes as a huge relief!

If there is a single meaning to be attached to this act it is that the CTG is serious about finally doing something about the unconscionable rape of Dhaka by none other than the very ministers and officials responsible for protecting the city and its inhabitants from the grubby "over-commoditisation" of land; and our so-called business "elite" who ride over the city's Master Plan and people's need for a rational transport system, even as their progeny attending Wharton and the Harvard School of Business regurgitate textbooks on corporate responsibility for the greater good!

Well done, CTG!
Sultana Alam, Dhanmondi

I was horrified to see the manner in which the Rangs Bhaban is being demolished. No matter whoever paid for the construction materials and interior decoration, ultimately everything belongs to the country. I cannot understand why a few days time could not be provided to salvage materials before the actual demolition began.

Let us make our decisions in the interest of the country.
A citizen, On e-mail

Your report on Rangs Bhaban on August 3 at one stage calls it a 'beautiful' building. I wonder how the reporter came to that conclusion.

Does it not also reflect a kind of bias on your part?
Fuad Mallick, Gulshan, Dhaka